Let’s say you have a situation where you have a severely autistic individual, a person with Tourette’s, dyslexia, or some kind of severe learning disability, all of which can lead to anger when the person gets frustrated. To be clear, I am not saying that all persons with disabilities are prone to anger more so
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College Admission Decisions: The View from Ontario Canada and its Applicability to the U.S.
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Usually at this time of year, my last blog entry is devoted to the greatest hits for the year. However, for this year the data points are a bit mixed up because I moved my blog platform to the Lex Blog platform halfway through the year. So, I don’t have data for the whole year.…
Public Schools Ability to Regulate Off-campus Speech in the Digital Age
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We now have a new Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. For those interested in how she might rule on disability rights matters, see this blog entry1821206969198. Today’s blog entry came to me from my involvement with the Federal Bar Association civil rights section. Caryl Oberman, a Pennsylvania attorney…
How is Fry playing out in the lower courts?
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In searching for a blog entry to do this week and striking out with my Lexis alert, I thought it might be interesting to see how Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, discussed here, was playing out in the lower courts. When I did that, I came across the case of K.G. v. Bluff-Luton Community School …
This is Outrageous! April Fools:-)
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This is just outrageous!* People shouldn’t say these things, such as:**
- “I’m not going to change anything with respect to IEP’s. After all, appropriate progress means anything you want it to mean.”
- “Since I don’t want your money, I can do what I want.”
- “A cool website is more important than an accessible website.
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Endrew Decided
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Posted in Federal Cases, IDEA
As you know, it is rare that I blog more than once a week. I do make exceptions for extraordinary situations. This is one of those situations. Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court decided Endrew The decision contains stirring language, and is a huge victory for students with disabilities with IEP’s. It will also fundamentally…
Fry Decided
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Last week the United States Supreme Court came down with the decision in Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, the oral argument of which I discussed here. A whole bunch of people have blogged on the case, but I thought I would share my thoughts here. The blog entry is divided into three categories: …
Endrew Oral Argument and Regulatory Developments
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I just reviewed the transcript of the oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Endrew v. Douglas County School District, which involves figuring out just how far a school district needs to go in order to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE), under IDEA. Here is what we know from that oral…
2017 Legislation of Interest in Congress
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Happy new year everyone!
Since it is the first blog of 2017, I thought I would start with another first. That is, to the best of my knowledge, we have never discussed pending legislation in the U.S. Congress before. There are a couple of interesting bills that are worth discussing and so here goes.…
A Donald Trump Administration and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Before moving on to the post of the week, you will notice that the blog has a new look and feel. I upgraded the blog so that it is better able to be used on mobile devices and more importantly the upgrade increases its ability to be accessible. Besides the look, you will see that…